Elusive

This second book in the "Scarlet Revolution" trilogy, after Scarlet, takes Baroness Orczy's classic adventure The Scarlet Pimpernel, with its tale of daring rescues from the shadows of the guillotine, and stirs in skullduggery and machinations on all sides while vampires plot in the shadows of both France and England to pull the countries under their immortal sway. As the revolution turns on itself and the vampires push forward their plans, the story is told from the perspective of Eleanor Dalton, once a vampire's housemaid and blood supply, now a member of the League of the Scarlet Pimpernel. Eleanor switches roles from a queen's doppelganger to a spying maid and learns too much about how the world works to fit into any station. She'll have to make her own place--if she survives what's to come. VERDICT Cogman furthers the creation of this alternate history and tells a pulse-pounding tale of spies and swashbuckling that will thrill readers of Gail Carriger, Kim Newman, and the author's own "Invisible Library" series, leaving them breathless in anticipation of the final volume in the trilogy.--Marlene Harris